School Trips

2019 Availability

Residential activity centres are great for providing children with valuable new skills and learning experiences. Mill on the Brue is one of the best outdoor education and activity centres for school groups, offering a diverse range of adventurous activities and fantastic educational holidays.

Overnight trips away to activity centres for children are consistently popular amongst schools and youth groups. With 34 years of experience in running an activity centre for school groups, we get lots of schools returning to us year after year. Our school residential trips not only involve fun onsite activities, but can also include environmental and field studies too.

“Mill on the Brue provides an exhilarating exciting, engaging and (most of all) fun experience for pupils and staff. Thank you for everything! (Paulton Junior School)”

“Just wanted to say a huge thank you from us all for such a brilliant week last week. The children had an amazing time and learnt so much (particularly about teamwork..!) A particularly big thank you to our instructors and Chloe for looking after us so well.” Ashton Vale Primary School

Great reasons to come

Individually written programmes for your school in consultation with the Party Leader.

Choose your emphasis – teamwork and social skills, the environment and conservation or link the course to the National Curriculum.

We provide one instructor for every group of up to 12 students - the same instructor stays with the group throughout your stay.

Qualified and experienced instructors, all with enhanced DBS checks.

Risk assessments updated annually and sent to you on request.

Accredited centre for Learning in The Outdoor Classroom (LoTC) – perfect for an educational trip.

Expect fun, adventure, friendship and much more...

You, as the school's Party Leader, can choose from over 40 outdoor pursuits, adventurous activities, tasks, games and projects. We will work with you to create an individual programme to suit your group.

The majority of the activities are on site, making the most of the time and ensuring at least six activities per day.

If you wish, there can be an emphasis on teamwork and social skills and/ or the environment and conservation. Additionally the programme can be linked to the Geography or History National Curriculum with a town or river study. Whatever you choose it will be fun.

The Apple Store is our environmental centre / classroom built from straw bales and specifically designed to teach children about protecting our environment.

All our staff are trained, well qualified and experienced.

School Trip Details

Duration: 5 Days or 2 Days

Between: Monday to Friday morning, or late Friday to Sunday afternoon

Capacity: Accommodation for 90 (in three separate buildings) students and 11 staff

Info: Additional accommodation 7 minutes walk – Cliff House up to 50 students plus staff. MoB staff will meet you at the bottom of our drive and transport all the bags up to the accommodation.

School Trip Discounts

If the group size is more than 50 children then we will give three free places (children's places) to the group. For every 12 children there is one free teacher's place.

Ideal Location

Mill On The Brue is located in Bruton, Somerset, near to the borders of Dorset and Wiltshire. It is an ideal school residential trip location being just one hour from Bath and Bristol and 2 hours from London.

First Class Outdoor Education Trips

Mill On The Brue specialises in offering first class outdoor education trips and outdoor adventure courses which create a fantastic atmosphere for skills development in many areas.

“A genuinely incomparable experience, I know of no other centre anywhere close to those high standards. Superb!!!” Chafyn Grove School, Salisbury

‘Celebrating our 30th year coming to Mill on the Brue, that should tell you how wonderful it is!!Princes Mead School, Winchester

Membership to governing bodies

The Activity Centres (Young Persons’ Safety) Act 1995 and the Adventure Activities Licensing Regulations 2004 make it a legal requirement for providers of certain adventure activities for young people to undergo an inspection of their safety management systems and hold a licence. BAPA – British Activity Providers Association sets the standard for Quality, Safety and Value for activity centres and residential and day camp providers.